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Topic: Why does Vader Die? (Read 3251 times)

Caught ROTJ on Spike this evening (again) and it had me wondering. Luke got shocked by the Emperor's lightning for a minute or two and was completely fine afterwards, but Vader only got the treatment for a few seconds or so as he tossed the old man and he kicked the bucket soon after. Granted he just got his hand chopped off and is more "robot" than man, but.....

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It's from the Infinities comic series...at the end of ROTJ, neiter Vader or the Emperor died, yet Vader returned to the light side of the force. He was injured but came out of the medical bay in white armor and vowed to help track doen the Emperor.

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Peacekeeper, when it absolutely, positively has to be nuked in 30 minutes or less. Or the next nuke's free!

I've said this numerous times, but I think it's hilarious when some of you get so angry over EU.

Hardly angry over it, just had no idea what it was.

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Just ignore it and leave it for us who enjoy it. It'll be ok.

Hey, I'm tryin' to, buddy! This is the Original Trilogy section, after all. I was hoping I'd be safe from that crap in here, but it just wasn't meant to be this time.

My "It'll be Ok" comment deserved your "Buddy" comment. But the "Exhausted Universe, garbage" sounded angry to me. Having said that you are certainly correct that this is the "OTC" thread and EU answers maybe don't fit.

« Last Edit: June 21, 2010, 10:52 AM by GrandMoffNick »

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"A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about, how many people can make you feel rare?"

Oh, I just say stuff like that to tweak any Exhausted Universe garbage-lovers who might be reading. And it sometimes works. But I don't get angry about it, just like I don't get angry when talking about regular garbage.

I happen to like the EU stories. Whoever posted the bit about Infinities apparently didn't get the point of those publications. They are supposed to be similar to the "What if?" titles from Marvel that tell of a possible sequence of events that could have happened in some alternate reality.

"Star Wars Infinities is a group of mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics, which tell non-canon alternate events that branch off from the events of Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. The individual Infinities stories are unrelated to one another.

No where else in the EU does Vader come back to life in white armor to fight for the light side. The actual EU stories tie in pretty nicely with the movies in most cases.